Great recovery

Press, 30 January 1986, Page 36

Great recovery

Altha Triggs (Rlccarton Women’s), a former women’s bowls national singles champion, made a great recovery to win her first Christchurch centre singles title at St Martins yesterday. Against Ora Bate (Kaiapoi), Mrs Triggs was 2-12 down after nine ends in the champion-of-cham-pions singles final. She then won eight consecutive ends to be ahead 1312 with four ends to play. Mrs Bate got back in front with a two on the eighteenth end and it was the next end which decided the match. Mrs Bate had three close shots until Mrs Triggs pushed the jack out of bounds with her final delivery. Mrs Triggs scored a three on the replay and a single on the twentieth end put her three in front,

17-14, playing the last end. Mrs Bate scored a two on the’ final end and she came within a whisker of getting the jack back the metre she needed to tie the shores and force another game. Mrs Triggs had trouble judging her weight in the early stages, which was a little surprising as she had already had a match on a green which was slowed by overnight rain. She reached the final by beating Mary Boon (Lincoln), 21-8.

Mrs Triggs has been a prominent bowler, initially in Dunedin, for a number of years, but her continued success is notable for a change in her delivery style. Two years ago a hamstring injury to her left leg forced her to switch, to bowling off her right leg.